Nearly five years. Thousands of articles. *So many* comments. 

Today the current chapter of EcoSalon’s half-decade history closes – and we don’t know if we’ll be back. So we feel it’s important to say this:

Thank you.

We have always been, and we always shall be, in it for the discussion. We’ve treasured every time you took a moment out of your day to give us your thoughts – and we’ve loved it when you returned, again and again, to keep a discussion going (particularly when you were presenting us with compelling counter-arguments to what we’d published? Contrarianism? Bring it on). In short, we like your minds, and we’re inestimably grateful for all the times you’ve given us a piece of them.

Here, then, are seven posts where at least half the fun is in the comments.

Thanks again.

10 Reasons Never To Let Anyone You Love Near A McDonald’s

 7 Stupid Laws Against Women

The Conscious Case Against Veganism

Broke? 20 Fun Things To Do Without Spending A Dime

When Good Causes Go Wrong: 7 Utterly Outrageous PETA Stunts

Jesus, Enough With The Chicken

15 Best Foods To Boost Your Metabolism

Images: {christy b}, ralpe, keith011764, Mr. Theklan, striatic, iheartmacaroni and SMercury98.

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The best of the week at EcoSalon, hand-picked for one’s clicking pleasure.

To celebrate the Olympics taking place in jolly old England, we’re adding a touch of British refinement to our Friday 5 this week.

“I say, waiter! I’ll have your best whale steak & cod tongue,” says Sarah Menzies, pondering the ethics of eating a locally plentiful, internationally problematic source of food.

Darling, there are books, and there are books. Looking for a page-turner with an undeniable sense of style? We have 10 dashingly chic suggestions for you.

How many of you wouldn’t date a vegetarian? What? Really? Well – gosh.

Cycle Chic: it’s a problem, and Elly Blue is putting her foot down. Tally-ho!

Finally, as much as we’d like you to pop by for a cup of tea and a nice biscuit, that’s just not practical right now – so we’d like to offer you the next best thing. What say you?

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Take a look at the bottom of our posts. What has changed?

Yep – you don’t have to be logged into Facebook to comment anymore. We’ve gone back to a basic commenting process that makes it super-easy for anyone to leave their thoughts…and that’s exactly why we’ve done it.

Over the last 4 years we’ve written about a lot of things. We’ve cheerleaded, we’ve lambasted, we’ve banged our drums and we’ve pinned our hearts to our sleeves. In short – we’ve cared, unapologetically. If we’ve written about it, we have feelings on the matter and we’re not shy about showing it.

Sometimes you don’t agree with us. And frankly? We love that. We loved it when you argued on the side of PETA.  We loved it when you challenged our thoughts on a certain fast-food chain. When Sarah objected to NASA firing a probe into the Moon, we all argued the point in the comments. When Tina listed 15 foods to boost your metabolism, you enriched the post no end by adding links, testaments and useful tips of your own. You helped us reach consensus on what defines “toxic.” You’ve agreed, you’ve disagreed, you’ve cheered us on and called us out – and you’ve kept us honest, because we don’t speak for everyone and hey, we’re not perfect.

(I know, so hard to believe).

It’s your discussion and your input that turned EcoSalon into the platform we always hoped it would be – and we think a third-party Facebook comments plugin has been getting in the way of that healthy, exciting dialogue. So now we’ve ditched it. We don’t want to stifle your voice or keep you at a distance – we want you to show us how the issues we write about affect you.

The safeties are off, people.

Feel free to give us a piece of your mind.

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